I got a call today that someone had unwanted rabbits, " they just keep breeding" she said!! :x I was alarmed by her tone and lack of concern, so got my husband who works nearby where she lives to go and pick them up.
He said the condition of the house was deplorable, he came home with one cage with a mother, father, two babies about 4/5 weeks old from a previous litter and babies who look like they were just born today, 6 babies but one was dead in teh cage! the poor mother didn't even have anything to make a nest with and the cage was filthy and stinking, there was no sign of any food and they were all very very hungry and thirsty.
The babies were wriggling about on a thin layer of sawdust and will have been getting trampled on by the other rabbits!! I am so appalled, how could anyone be so cruel
Mum and babies are now in a cage on there own with lots of fresh hay, she nursed them within 10 minuted of being in the cage, the two other babies are in a seperate cage and Daddy is outside in a nice cosy hutch.
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Babies
Newborns
He said the condition of the house was deplorable, he came home with one cage with a mother, father, two babies about 4/5 weeks old from a previous litter and babies who look like they were just born today, 6 babies but one was dead in teh cage! the poor mother didn't even have anything to make a nest with and the cage was filthy and stinking, there was no sign of any food and they were all very very hungry and thirsty.
The babies were wriggling about on a thin layer of sawdust and will have been getting trampled on by the other rabbits!! I am so appalled, how could anyone be so cruel
Mum and babies are now in a cage on there own with lots of fresh hay, she nursed them within 10 minuted of being in the cage, the two other babies are in a seperate cage and Daddy is outside in a nice cosy hutch.
Mummy
Babies
Newborns